{"id":46397,"date":"2025-06-07T16:33:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T16:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/double-crater-from-rocket-debris-collision-discovered-on-moon"},"modified":"2025-06-07T16:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T16:45:06","slug":"double-crater-from-rocket-debris-collision-discovered-on-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/double-crater-from-rocket-debris-collision-discovered-on-moon","title":{"rendered":"Double Crater from Rocket Debris Collision Discovered on Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>The principal investigator of NASA\u2019s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera suggested that the crater\u2019s nature \u201cmay indicate\u201d that the rocket body responsible for it &#8220;had large masses at each end&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The US space agency NASA has announced the discovery of the site on the lunar surface where a rocket body collided with Earth\u2019s only natural satellite on 4 March.<\/p>\n<p>The site was spotted by NASA\u2019s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and consists of a crater 18 meters in diameter \u201csuperimposed\u201d on another crater that is 16 meters wide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe double crater was unexpected and may indicate that the rocket body had large masses at each end,\u201d Mark Robinson of Arizona State University and principal investigator of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, explained in an article posted on the space agency\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTypically a spent rocket has mass concentrated at the motor end; the rest of the rocket stage mainly consists of an empty fuel tank,\u201d he elaborated. \u201cSince the origin of the rocket body remains uncertain, the double nature of the crater may indicate its identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robinson also pointed out that \u201cno other rocket body impacts\u201d resulted in the creation of \u201cdouble craters\u201d on the Moon\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p>The object was first spotted in 2015 by Bill Gray &#8211; creator of the Guide astrometry software used by astronomers to track near-Earth objects &#8211; who initially identified it as the second stage of a SpaceX rocket that had propelled the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) into space that year.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, mere weeks before the object\u2019s collision with the Moon, Gray announced that he got \u201cgood evidence that it is actually 2014-065B, the booster for the Chang&#8217;e 5-T1 lunar mission&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Sierra-Leone<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Sierra-Leone. The principal investigator of NASA\u2019s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera suggested that the crater\u2019s nature \u201cmay indicate\u201d that the rocket body responsible for it &#8220;had large masses at each end&#8221;. 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